Four top-25 teams lost to unranked opponents last week, and another three have gone down within the past 48 hours. With conference standings, projected brackets and fans’ guts all churning, you don’t need us to tell you that the best programs in college basketball this season are a tightly bunched, volatile group. But our Giant Killers project can show you which highly rated teams are likely to fall away from the pack in March.
For 11 years, we have refined a statistical model to find traits common to deep underdogs that pull off big upsets and heavy favorites that lose in the NCAA tournament.